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Baroque Clarinets Chalumeau & Ocarinas

Author: Windy Dreamer
Date: 2018-11-15 21:20

Recently I have learned it is impossible to play clarinets outdoors in Canadian weather for most of the year.Exposing my plastic Jupiter to extreme temperatures even in the car often renders it unplayable for two or more days due to leaks and seizures.Now more than ever I desire a simpler clarinet with a lot less keys or possibly no keys. Over the past two years I have learned that there is no used baroque clarinet or chalumeau market. New instruments are rare and well beyond my budget. Over the past two years I have gathered a fair bit of rosewood to make Denner clarinets but cannot find measurements or tutorials on how to make them. Is there a good book with detailed measurements of popular historic chalumeau and early clarinets ?
Last week I discovered the phenominal world of ocarinas and multi chambered ocarina flute hybrids. A simple shirt pocket wood ocarina can sound identical to or better than a premium clarinet. I was stunned by the deep smooth base tones of some of these very small instruments. One player had a three barreled flute with an ocarina resonating chamber . One 3 hole barrel for base notes, one 3 hole barrel for soprano and a drone tube with one hole. As he played it the feedback through the common resonating chamber made it sound like an orchestra of a dozen flute and clarinet players. This outstanding instrument was only about 1.5 x3x6 inches.Unfortunately there seems to be very little useful information on making ocarinas.
In the quest for clarinet sound in harsh outdoor enviroments I plan to make wood ocarinas . Starting out with scrap lumber projects I hope to learn the fundamentals of tone hole design.After the making of a few ocarinas I hope to make a few baroque clarinets. It would be nice to have something more than guesswork and intuition to guide this quest.

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